Healthy Homemade Breakfast Burritos

Well, I made the kids mad at lunch today. I stood there making 20 breakfast burritos and wouldn’t even let them eat one.

Instead, they had to eat tuna. I was heartless enough to actually make them wait until next week to eat the Breakfast Burritos. Hey, I’m just trying to get ahead here. Someday when they become the parent, they too might have a Breakfast Burrito agenda and make their children settle for tuna. And then they’ll come back to me and tell me how sorry they are for being mad about the 2010 Withholding of the Breakfast Burritos.

*Tortilla Hint: If you’re making your own tortillas (and if you aren’t, you really should be, because YUM)…try this tip to make burrito forming so much easier! As you roll your tortillas, cook them on just one side, leaving the other side softer and more flexible. Also, I find it works best to form the burritos within two or three hours of making the tortillas…before the tortillas have been refrigerated.

To put together the burritos:

Stir together scrambled eggs, cooked sausage, cheese and salsa. (I leave out the salsa at first and make up some salsa-less burritos for a couple of boys in my life who don’t like salsa. Then I add salsa to the remainder of the mix and make a few with salsa for the rest of us!)

Place a nice spoonful of burrito mixture onto a tortilla.

Fold in the ends.

Fold up one side, and then the other.

Place burritos in a freezer bag and store in the freezer for up to three months.

To reheat: Place desired number of thawed or frozen burritos on a baking sheet. Heat in a 350° oven for 10-20 mintues until heated through.

P.S. The children weren’t mad for long. They really like tuna…but just temporarily forgot that fact when they smelled the sausage cooking. They happily ate their tuna and will ever so much more happily eat their Breakfast Burritos some morning next week when I have yet another agenda: the-hurry-up-and-eat-breakfast-so-that-you-can-start-your-handwriting-and-math…agenda.

Comments

This is totally off topic, but I can’t wait for you to tell us how you kicked your Pepsi addiction. You see, I too am addicted (to Diet Coke) and I hope your story will help me. Love your blog by the way!

Those look yummy, Laura =)
So, do you have a press/whatever for making your tortillas?? We eat entirely too many tortillas to not be making our own. :s {but tonight espec. it sounds like the one-more-thing I can’t do}

I do have a press that my husband brought me from Mexico a few years ago, but it doesn’t work very well for me. Takes too much muscle. I much prefer rolling them with a rolling pin. Now that I’m so used to making them, it really only takes about a half an hour for me to roll out a double batch (24 tortillas). And it is SO worth it. Homemade does not even compare to store bought.

I do understand what you’re saying about “one more thing to do…” Totally. I try to make extras any time I’m making them for our tacos or whatever so that I just have a nice stash of tortillas already made in the fridge so that I don’t have to go to the trouble of rolling them EVERY time we need tortillas.

I’ve been making my own tortillas for about a year and the taste
is so much better than bought that my husband doesn’t want me to stop
making them. You do get really fast at making them. My kids beg for
them when they come hot off the griddle and my husband has one with
eggs in the morning and one at lunch with cheese and he has so lost
weight! I think it would be great to make breakfast burritos to freeze
so that my kids can grab one for breakfast as we have given up on
cold cereal. I do make egg muffins available for them to eat which is
quick in the morning.

I REALLY like Danielle’s idea of using steak. My husband would LOVE that! Or, you could leave meat out entirely and just have eggs, salsa and cheese. OOH – or you could fry up some potatoes and stir them in!!! Okay, now I want to make another batch…

This is my first time posting a comment, but I am a faithful reader. I really enjoy your posts, I love your sense of humor and yet your words are filled with truth. Many times a specific post has really resonated with me. So, thank you for taking the time to share with us what God has laid on your heart! In addition to reading, I have also used several of your recipes with good success for my family! We are a homeschooling family of 7 and I am always looking for healthy ways to feed my family. I already make many things from scratch (including most of our bread type products) but am still on the healthy eating journey too. I have a question about the tortillas for your breakfast burritos. I have looked at your ebook for tortillas (I think it’s called Totally Tortillas?) but before I buy I am wondering if it will tell me I need to purchase a tortilla press? Is there a way to make tortillas without having a press? I can’t afford a press right now so I’m not sure the ebook will help me. Can you let me know? Thanks again for sharing. Oh, I did not vote in your age poll, but I’m 48. :-) (we got started on our family later in life, we have 5 children ranging from 12 to 5).

Fantastic! I have been scouring the internet for a way to make ahead breakfast burritos, freeze them, and leave them in the freezer for my son’s youth retreat at church. I wanted them to be able to just take them out and heat in the oven, but everything I read said to individually wrap in a paper towel and heat in the microwave. Tell that to a bunch of 11-year-olds scrambling to get dressed for church after staying up all night! Thank you so much for this, I will check out your other posts.

Me, too! We are serving Easter breakfast for 75 in two weeks making the microwave not at all feasible. On our annual vacation, we stop in a small town that serve over a thousand handmade, frozen and reheated in roasters burritos. I can’t find those instructions anywhere, but your oven instructions should be more translatable than microwaving. Thanks!

I recently purchased your e-book for tortillas. I made them this evening for our chicken fajita’s. They were absolutely delicious. I hope I never have to resort to store bought tortillas again. We also spread a little butter and a cinnamon/turbinado sugar. WOW!!!!!

As a homeschooling mom of three, I don’t have a lot of time for the computer but your site gets checked daily. Thanks for all your hard work. You have inspired me in our journey to a healthier diet. We’ve switched to coconut oil and organic beef/chicken. The tortillas are just one more step toward a healthier us. My one wish is that Azure Standard delivered to central Indiana.

I made them like the instructions and individually wrapped each in
foil, then stuck them all in a gallon ziplock. It took awhile to
wrap them, but it was worth it to pull one out, unwrap the foil,
wrap in a wet paper towel and heat in the microwave. Super easy
on-the-go breakfast. The paper towel keeps the tortilla from drying
out. Just make sure not to overheat. I do about 1:45.

These look great!! Do you know of a way to make them without scrambled eggs? My son can’t eat eggs (but he can eat egg cooked into something, like bread, cake, etc.). A friend told me about your breakfast cake recipe, and the kids love it! So I’ve been sitting here for the last hour looking at your breakfast recipes to see what I could make for my family tomorrow. Thanks for having such a great site!

I just made your stromboli with your sausage recipe for dinner last night, it was a HUGE HIT! I’m going to try making these burritos with cheese, the turkey sausage and instead of regular eggs use my “green eggs” recipe I got from the deceptively delicious cook book. Basically you just wilt then puree a lb of spinach and whisk it into your eggs and them scramble cook them. I think they’d be a hit in these burritos! (add some oj or orange slices or anything high in vitamin c with the same meal and your body will more easily absorb the iron in the spinach.)